drm/i915: Prefer random replacement before eviction search
Performing an eviction search can be very, very slow especially for a range restricted replacement. For example, a workload like gem_concurrent_blit will populate the entire GTT and then cause aperture thrashing. Since the GTT is a mix of active and inactive tiny objects, we have to search through almost 400k objects before finding anything inside the mappable region, and as this search is required before every operation performance falls off a cliff. Instead of performing the full search, we do a trial replacement of the node at a random location fitting the specified restrictions. We lose the strict LRU property of the GTT in exchange for avoiding the slow search (several orders of runtime improvement for gem_concurrent_blit 4KiB-global-gtt, e.g. from 5000s to 20s). The loss of LRU replacement is (later) mitigated firstly by only doing replacement if we find no freespace and secondly by execbuf doing a PIN_NONBLOCK search first before it starts thrashing (i.e. the random replacement will only occur from the already inactive set of objects). v2: Ascii-art, and check preconditionst v3: Rephrase final sentence in comment to explain why we don't bother with if (i915_is_ggtt(vm)) for preferring random replacement. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170111112312.31493-3-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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